The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-03-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

pelts II can In the West.
THERE arc hfty-two newspapers pub.
llshed In Des Moines, In.
FLAvIus JosEpHus has boon appointed 10
postmastership In Maine.
oSE county In Missouri produced go, 900
worth OF castor oil last year.
An Icclander is in Washington Territory
looking t0r place 10 locate colony.
SHors made OF rice straw arc worn by the
hboring people in the south Of China.
Gas and coal have been discovered in
good quantities near ossawotamie, Kan.
The remains Of Baltimore editor were
sold for ten dollars TO n medical college.
IT Is rumorod that Secretary Bayard will
soon participate in wedding ceremony.
A BRooKLIs alderman il accused OF
wearing bit OF platc-glass as diamond
The city council OF st. Louis has fixed
eight hours as legal work day for city
laborcrs.
A TiRM OF pcrfume-manufacturcrs are
about 10 establish vast flower plantation
In Florida.
ArHrsicfAS says; "If child docs not
thrive on fresh milk, boil it, This is too
severe on the child.
AsrnALr has been discovered In Morgan
County, Ala. II is the only known deposit
In the United States.
Mrs. MARGAREr J. PREsroS the well.
known Southern writer, il threatened
with total blindness.
THE Great Eastern, which cost at her
completion in 1850, 1900, 900, has been sold
at auction for $4,000.
1T is generally conceded that II France
and Germany nght, Russia viii walk on
with good slice OF pie.
THE average age Of those who enter col.
lego In this country is seventeen. = cen.
tury ago II was fourteen.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL Ia advocating the
emigration OF unmarried women from
England TO the British colonies.
The rolling mills throughout wester1
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio are crowd
ed with orders for several weeks.
The Colorado supreme court has decided
that women can not act as notarics publ
In that State under existing laws
GENERAL SnIRipAS Is OF the opinion tina,
woshould FIRST obtain guns, and then the
matter Of fortihcations might be consid.
cred.
MAsoR Beg: PKRLEr PooRE tells Gath
that evcry President who called an oxtrs
session OF Congress- failed 10 get renoml
uatcd
Tue indications arc that the railroads
win soon bo tumbling over one another in
their eaRerncss 10 bounce the deadly stove
from their cars
II is stated that tho Gar Of Russia So
cretly visited Paris and had an interview
with President Grcvy, recently. lie tray-
olcd in disguise.
SERGEANT SNITH, OF Richmond, Va, has
been fned $50 for permitting more persons
TO Witness tho execution Of Cluyoriua
than allowed by law.
Sr, PAUL and Minneapolis nro fighting
for the State Capital. Tho latter city in,
tends Offering site and Building costing
G,o0O,ooo 10 the State froe
GOVERNOR DAVIS, the new Senator.cIoct
from Minnesota, Is q much younger man
than Ben Butler, but almost his exact
counterpart in appearance.
PRoP. ALEXANDER declares that he has
sounded the extinct crater near the lepcr
settlement at Molokai, and line 3,5Ol foe,
long remained taut and failed TO reach the |
bottom.
GIRL has just beon arrested In New
York for stealing the watch and jewelry OF |
friend, and the fact was that she had |
pawncd them TO get money to bury her
mother.
Miss CARRIE DrKE, the daughter Of the
famous Confederate General, Basil Duke.
Is a wonderful player on tho violin, and ia
now entertaining her friends ut tho Ma
tional Capital.
The abolition OF the FREQ pass system by
the railroads win, It is said, be feature
OF the enforcement OF the interstate com.
morce law, over which q strong legal ques-
tion will be raised.
THE library Of George Washington, pur-
chased in lSiS at a cost of 5000 Is one of
tho many interesting collections. which
have come into the possession OF the Bos.
ton Athenmum Library.
PhisCEss CoLoSSA, the daughter OF Mrs
J. W. Mackay, is to accompany her hus,
band 10 this country in the spring. He is
coming over TO look after his railroad in.
terests in Mexico aud Texas.
A WESTERN man sent in TO an editor an
item 70 the effect that his fortieth wedding
would be observed on a.cer-
tain day, but the printer inadvertently left
out the word anniversary"
JoHN c. CALHOUN, OF South Carolina,
grandson OF thegreat nullifier, has the sec
ond largest cotton field In the United
States. He was d Captain in the Confed.
erate service at eighteen and is now forty.
one
Mn. CHAs. GALLOWAY, of Winchester, Va,
was so overcome by the receipt Of q tele-
gram that she dropped dead. Had she
waited TO open IL she would simply have
found that her sister was coming on
visit.
THE Treasury Department decides that
finished photographs from negatives taken
Ior citizens Of the United States while Wis
ting the Canadian side of Niagara Falls
must pay duty when sent to the purchss.
,rs in this country.
Two men who were in Lincoln's Cabinet
till live. One is Hannibal Hamlin, who
lcted as his Vice President and who is
Tery happy among his books and trout ,
streams in Maine, and the other Is Simon
cameron, who is now in the Bermudas for
lis health. I
A DAKOTA woman in the Upper James {
yalley decided that she wanted fur d
loak. She began trapping mink and tan. {